The Legal Hold status can be inherited from both user groups and individual laptop owners. When conflicts occur between inherited statuses, Metallic applies a defined precedence order to determine the final Legal Hold status .
Legal Hold Inheritance Rules
These rules govern how Legal Hold properties are inherited and resolved for laptops with multiple owners or group memberships.
User-Level Status Overrides User Group Status
If any laptop owner's' Legal Hold status is disabled, this status overrides the inherited user-group status—even when the user-group's Legal Hold status is enabled.
Example Scenario
- User Group Status: Enabled
- User-Level Status for Owner A: Disabled
- Laptop Owners: Owner A and Owner B
Result
The laptop Legal Hold status is disabled, because the user-level setting (Disabled takes priority over the inherited user-group value (Enabled).
Enabled Takes Precedence When Multiple User-Level Statuses Exist
When a laptop inherits user-level Legal Hold statuses from multiple owners, and at least one owner has the status set to Enabled, the final laptop status becomes Enabled.
Example Scenario
- Owner A’s User-Level Status: Enabled
- Owner B’s User-Level Status: Disabled
- Laptop Owners: Owner A and Owner B
Result
The laptop property is shown as Enabled, because Enabled overrides Disabled when multiple user-level statuses are inherited.
Summary
- User-level statuses override inherited user-group statuses.
- When multiple user-level statuses exist across different owners, Enabled always takes precedence over Disabled.